1-19-07 - Getting this section up today, using for
starters Bill Redican's verbatim versions of these interviews and lectures
- or his entering of DC close to verbatim version into the ZC archive.

Why on earth haven't I gotten all this presented better before. It's the
core historical material for the whole archive. Oh well. What I call Peter
Schneider's Interview 3 with Suzuki is listed in the verbatim archive as
69-11-09v. Up till today, I've had an inferior version of this interview on
the site mixed in with Peter's other two interviews and edited so that the
material on various subjects is together. What I used was based on an old
transcription of the tape before the verbatim lectures were made. I just
found the verbatim version - which I didn't realize existed - by searching
for "old girlfriend" with Google Desktop. I remember when Bill Redican sent
me this I was busy with Crooked Cucumber and read it for vital info and
tucked it away somewhere and forgot about it. For years I keep having vague
memories of stuff like this that I need to find - to do a major
reorganization and go through of tons of stuff to find. I've been thinking
of getting this essential part of cuke and the archives more together by
digging around like this and have just kept putting it off to do something
else - somewhat because it tied in to a vaster plan. One thing I've been
saying I wanted to do, again for years, is to go over all of Suzuki's
lectures again (after spending time making sure as many as I could locate
were all together), taking notes on historical info like this and going over
all my notes and letters and emails and Crooked Cucumber to come up with a
more complete picture of his life - too big for a book. And from all this I
thought it would be good to do a study called Notes on Crooked Cucumber. But
that would also include notes on his teaching which is of far greater
import. But it all ties together in a fascinating way. - DC